WOW Game Title: Mingle, Mingle
Content Area: Math
TEKS focus: Addition
More and Fewer
Patterns
Physical Education Unit: Cardiovascular, Traveling, Spatial awareness, Cooperation
Grade: Kinder
Resource: CATCH Activity Box 3– 5
Equipment/Materials: Designated activity area, list of review questions for the teacher
to call out, music (optional).
Set Up: Students are scattered in a designated activity area.
Activity:
1. Call out “Mingle Mingle” (or start the music) and a locomotor movement (walk,
jog, slide, hop). Students begin traveling randomly throughout the activity area.
2. Signal or stop music and call out an equation such as 3+3 (see Variations),
encourage students to group quickly.
3. Students figure out the solution and then form a group of the size of the number
called, join together, and travel around the perimeter of the activity area
continuing to use the designated locomotor movement - jogging, galloping,
sliding, skipping.
4. Instruct students without a group to raise their hands and go to the center to find
others to join with.
5. Once the previous question has been answered, a new locomotor is assigned.
Students begin moving around the activity area.
6. Repeat #’s 1-5 for continuous activity.
Variations:
 Create a more difficult list of questions.
 Shorten the time students have to answer questions.
 In order to learn patterns, the teacher can call group numbers in a certain pattern
and then have the students try to figure out the pattern or what number the teacher
is calling next. Ex. T. calls out 1+0, then 1+1, and finally 1+2, and then says
“what number comes next? Can someone give me an equation to get to that sum?”
 Activity can also be played with math flash cards.
Review Questions:
Skill focus: What is the definition of cooperation?
Academic focus: Listen to the following numbers and tell me what number you
think would come next. 5, 6, 7…